A fundamental reason for using formal methods in the philosophy of science is the desirability of having a fixed frame of reference that may be used to organize the variety of doctrines at hand. This book - distinguished philosopher Patrick Suppes's groundbreaking and essential text - examines how set-theoretical methods provide such a framework, covering issues of axiomatic method, representation, invariance, probability, mechanics and language, including research on brain-wave representations of words and sentences.
- ISBN10 1575863332
- ISBN13 9781575863337
- Publish Date 1 October 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 December 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Centre for the Study of Language & Information
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 200
- Language English